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    Incest

    E. O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth speaks of the Westermarck Effect where adults raised in close proximity the first few years of their lives are rarely sexually attracted to each other. This is true even for non-siblings raised together and does not apply to siblings raised apart. And it is true world-wide. The only exception to this evolutionary incest avoidance strategy is royal families who throughout history have interbred.

    The taboo was broadened to cousins culturally. The West won out when cousins stopped kissing looks at this:

    When the Church banned cousins marrying in the Middle Ages it may have led to some very unexpected results, from rising individualism to more generous blood donation, according to new research.

    It seems, perhaps counterintuitively, that the Roman Catholic Church’s rules on marriage have produced not only more children, but also more independent thinking and less conformity among the broader Western population.

    If these findings appear a little weird, that’s appropriate. The research is focused on the impact of the Church’s rules on marriage in Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic societies – a segment known by the acronym WEIRD.

    Jonathan Schulz and colleagues from George Mason University and Harvard University in the US wanted to know why people from WEIRD societies are, well, different.

    “Western Europeans and their cultural descendants in North America and Australia tend to be more individualistic, independent, analytically minded, and impersonally prosocial (e.g., trusting of strangers) while revealing less conformity, obedience, in-group loyalty, and nepotism,” the authors write in the journal Science....
    Mapping the end of incest and dawn of individualism illustrates this:


    Church exposure and kinship intensity around the world. (A) Exposure to the Medieval Western (blue) and Eastern (green) Churches at the country level. (B) The Kinship Intensity Index for ethnolinguistic groups around the world. Source: "The Church, Intensive Kinship, and Global Psychological Variation," Jonathan F. Schulz, Duman Bahrami-Rad, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, and Joseph Henrich
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    There has always been incest and theres still incest and I saw to damn much of it my lifetime.

    Its dispicable and disgusting and it happens so much more than normal parents even realize. Most of it is never brought out or brought to trial.

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    I probably should have titled this Taboos Against Incest.

    Taboos don't guarantee there won't be outliers who engage in it, like royalty did.
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    Is that North andSouth Carolina highlighted there?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    Is that North andSouth Carolina highlighted there?
    Misses the point which has to do with how society in general tabooed sibling incest and religion in the West broadened that to cousins and changed it to one of "more individualistic, independent, analytically minded, and impersonally prosocial (e.g., trusting of strangers) while revealing less conformity, obedience, in-group loyalty, and nepotism.”
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    I'm relieved - Thought this thread was gonna be about Trump.






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    There always has to be a total moron who can only relate by attacking Trump.

    I do wish he would be banned for constant trolling and attempts at hijacking otherwise interesting threads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    There always has to be a total moron who can only relate by attacking Trump.

    I do wish he would be banned for constant trolling and attempts at hijacking otherwise interesting threads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    There always has to be a total moron who can only relate by attacking Trump.

    I do wish he would be banned for constant trolling and attempts at hijacking otherwise interesting threads.
    Humorless ^ Perhaps I can help


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Humorless ^ Perhaps I can help

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